New Ford GPA from Torro

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New Ford GPA from Torro

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New Ford GPA from Torro.

If the model is like the schwimmwagen, it will be a good model!!! :clap: :clap:


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Re: New Ford GPA from Torro

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That looks like fun Fred :D thank you for sharing, I can see me getting one of these to go alongside my DUKW 8) I wonder what it will be price wise and any idea on a release date ? :thumbup:

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It will definitely join my lend-lease collection (the Soviets got 3500 of them) :D

PS. Maybe merge this with the old thread:
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It was first announced in February this year but I have not seen any on sale at the usual outlets.
I think I am about to upset someone :haha:
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jarndice wrote:It was first announced in February this year but I have not seen any on sale at the usual outlets.
Becasue it's premeiere was two weeks ago on Leipzig Modell Hobby ;)

EDIT:It looks like the crew will be sold separately (as with Schwimmwagen). From Torro page:
https://torro.de/en/produkt/ford-gpa/
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Well I'm sure if it has the same electronics as the others from Torro, I'm sure it will break in 2 minutes.
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I'm planning to put there dasMicro anyway :D
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tankme wrote:Well I'm sure if it has the same electronics as the others from Torro, I'm sure it will break in 2 minutes.


I have never had a problem with my schwimmwagen, except a broken drive shaft, because hard offroad. ;)

And god know how many times me or my sons drove with it!!! :thumbup:
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My Torro M16 half-track ran about 5 minutes before the battery box stopped working. I thought the electronics had died, but some time with my multi-meter found the issue where the board wasn't getting any power from the battery box. I tried to resolder the connections on the battery box to no avail. It forced me to buy a Torro NI-CD battery pack for $20 to get it running again since I couldn't find a battery that would fit. My Torro Maxxpro literally died after 2 min of running on a hardwood floor. Nothing I have done will get it to work again. Then they wired the battery pack in the Maxxpro backwards from every battery pack I own. It's even wired backwards from the Torro M-ATV. Just not impressed so I won't be an early adopter of this one.
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looks a nice model of one
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